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THE Health Ministry in Gaza has warned that healthcare facilities in the war-wracked territory are nearing closure due to an acute fuel shortage for...

‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

IMPOSSIBLE fees estimated at £1,500 a year will be imposed in September, if the government is allowed to go ahead with planned cuts in...

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) joined thousands of Canadians opposing the Conservative budget in a mass online protest on Monday. NUPGE...

PALESTINIAN president Mahmud Abbas is set to meet US president George Bush in Washington this Thursday for an urgent summit. The Palestinians said this is...

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...

Tanks and troops of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invaded the central Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank city of Nablus early Wednesday...

Decades before the events of 9/11, Zionist organisations such as the Anti-Defamation League were advocating for counter-terrorism laws that specifically targeted Palestinians, unveils a...

SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...

PARENTS, charities and medical professionals have spoken out in opposition to the closure of four specialist children’s heart units, which were proposed on Wednesday. The...

Most trade union leaders welcomed the Brown government’s legislative programme announced in Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech. However, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) warned...

COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay...

‘PIG-headed’ EDF Energy bosses have sparked a week-long meter workers’ strike. A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations will take...

LEBANESE Christian politician General Michel Awn addressed a mass anti-government rally of over 200,000 people in Beirut on Sunday 10 December. He warned the government...

‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...

Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...

AUSTRALIAN unions AMWU, CFMEU and TCFUA held a rally outside of Ansell’s Australian headquarters on Thursday, following the denial of entry visas to a...

THE FRENCH trade union federations were meeting on Thursday to decide their next mobilisations after MPs in the National Assemby on June 8 failed...

OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

A STRIKE wave is spreading throughout South Africa as concrete workers, Telecom workers and miners are locked into escalating struggles against ruthless employers that...

DOCTORS and nurses working in Zimbabwe’s public health institutions will no longer be allowed to go on strike for an uninterrupted period spanning more...

Over 5,000 members and supporters of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign last Saturday marched and rallied in central London under the banner of Free Palestine. The...

THREE global trade union federations – representing 55 million industrial workers – have issued a call to the G20 summit, taking place in Pittsburgh,...

‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...

STAFF members of the US House of Representatives in Washington filed a petition for representation on Monday to form a union for the first...

Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov has expressed the hope that tension in relations between Iran and the West in connection...

TANSY Hoskins, the author of Anti-Capitalist Fashion, addressed the UNI International Union World Congress world Congress in Cape Town on December...

‘ONE day longer, one day stronger,’ chanted about 150 members and supporters of the United Steelworkers union last Sunday. They were holding a rally to...

East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth 2 November-9 February 2019 Tues-Sat: 11.00-18.00 daily Admission free EAST End Suffragette photos from 100 years ago, are revealed, for...

The Israeli government must bear full responsibility for the life of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza,...

TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...

FRENCH vehicle maker the PSA Group says it is pushing ahead with a plan to invest in Iran’s auto industry despite an increased anti-Iran...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...

PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing...

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has slammed the recent ‘normalisation agreement’ between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, and has called...

THE UNITE union has expressed its ‘deep concern’ at management proposals to axe more than 200 jobs at the Aston Martin site in the...

‘ONE of the world’s largest airports is facing complete shutdown,’ the Unite union has warned, ‘as members of Unite prepare to ballot for strike...

Hospital doctors and GPs on Wednesday condemned health minister Lord Darzi’s plan for London as ‘a disaster waiting to happen’ whose effect on NHS...

Now is not the time to introduce legislation that will punish those parents who fail to make their way in a tough jobs market,...

THE Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has greeted children, who were released from Daesh’s captivity in Suwayda Province, during a meeting in Damascus on November...

‘IRAN and Russia are on the path of strategic defence cooperation’ said the Iranian Daily Javan website on 21 January. It stated: ‘Iranian...

THE SPOKESMAN for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said last Wednesday that the President ‘is ready for a three-way meeting with Israel...

THE US military has reported the deaths of three more troops, two in blasts and one hit by small arms fire in insurgent...

‘We make no bones about the death of Zahid Mubarek. He died because of institutional murder,’ said the young Asian’s uncle, Imtiaz Amin. In response...

TAMILNET reports that Tamil politicians all over the world are urging global action to gain the release of POWs, and political prisoners. Addressing a...